Colemak is a modern alternative to the QWERTY and Dvorak layouts. It is designed for efficient and ergonomic touch typing in English.

Colemak gets rid of the Caps Lock, and replaces it with Backspace. You no longer need to move your hand off the home position just to correct errors. This alone saves about 15%-20% of total finger movement.

Colemak places the 10 most frequent letters of English on the home row.

Colemak has been designed to be easy to learn for existing QWERTY typists. Most of the keys remain in their QWERTY positions.